WHAT JONATHAN FOUND
any one come to do it? There's rebellion for you! Wind!
"I thought the government had got all the traitors. There's a few left. But don't you worry out there! I see you. Your names will be in my paper to-morrow. And that'll go straight to Washington. By God, I'm going to see that what I just said is true. That this is a Union town now. Don't worry out there! I expect the government has missed a few of you. But I know who you are, and if Uncle Sam don't get every sympathizer and Knight, and secessionist and Copperhead and spy in this county, you can blame it on me! Yes, and take it out of me—if you dare!
"Why, you are the scum of the rebellion. I respect those secessionists among us, who, thinking they were right, went into the Southern armies to prove it. I say so in my paper. I have nothing against the rebel who fights and takes his chances with powder and lead. He's a man! But such left-overs as you—stragglers—hangers-on whose only weapon is their
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